http://www.beezid.com/

It's a site where you bid on items. Bidding starts at one penny and goes up by one penny with each bid. The catch is that it costs about $1 to bid. They're getting (so far) $1,172 (current bid is $11.72) for a $500 ipad, $240+ for a $100 gift card . . . Just raking in the money off of people's stupidity.

AND YES I DID WASTE $27 TO PLACE 30 BIDS ON THE IPAD AND OTHER STUFF! FU BEEZID FU!

Bidding for the IPAD is up to $28, which means the site got about $2,800 for it so far.

The people who set that site up are assholes. beezid.com needs regulators deep up its ass like lexington steele's cock going up an eastern european blond.

Just realized the law school industry operates a lot like beezid. They essentially sell as many bids as the public wants to buy (new law schools open up constantly) for a finite number of rewards (biglaw basically). It would be a great deal for the pubic if a tiny group of people went to law school, as all would get biglaw, but so many go that the vast majority of applicants wind up ripped off.

Almost no one with money or a good education (i.e. good options) guns for BigLaw. BigLaw is the fall back option if you can't get a boutique firm or feeder judge straight out of LS. True BigLaw, at the associate level, is mind-numbing and not particularly well compensated for the hours you invest. Excellent BigLaw firms are few and far between (mostly, but not always, v20). Ask students at top schools--the only people who define Biglaw and "success" are people from hardscrabble backgrounds. Hell, most people from money are strongly advised to avoid Law, unless there is the potential for nepotism or political patronage. Compared to other options of the well-to-do, law is uninteresting and not well compensated.

What top law schools are selling is the ability to have an interesting career, with many options and the ability to create value for something other than a firm. This is what sets t14 (and especially HYSCCN) apart from the schools that market towards the poors.

I admit my analogy wasn't really apt because with beezid you can block others out by bidding more, something you can't do in law school, but your comments about biglaw are dubious at best. Sure a clerkship is generally viewed as better than biglaw, but that's because it's thought to give you a leg up when you go to biglaw, and I'm not at all sure about a boutique.

From what I've seen, most clerks go into Biglaw afterward anyway.

Most clerks don't clerk for feeder judges. You have a much, much better chance at working for a feeder judge at a top school than a TTT.

they made over $4,000 on the ipad

http://www.beezid.com/closed-auctions